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A Fond Farewell to Dick Van Patten

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Ed Martin

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If space permitted, I would have titled this column A Fond Farewell to Dick Van Patten (And a Great Big Thank You for the Memories), because just thinking about the man (something I hadn’t done in quite a while) has brought back memories of so much of the joy that I had (along with millions of other people) watching broadcast television in the late Seventies.

Ed Martin

Ed Martin is editorial advisor of MyersBizNet and its Watch, Listen & Learn platform. He's also the chief television and content critic for MediaVillage. He has written about television and internet programming for several Myers publicatio… read more